The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-12

DUm0OSAC NOwD
The largest gas well In the world has Just
been discovered near Fairmount, Ind It II
flowing nearly l2.Oo0, 600 feet per day.
A Washington dispatch states that the
Interstate Commerce act is having dis
astrous effect on Canada's export and i'm
port trade.
Not one OF the 1900 coke-ovens in the
Connellsville, Pa, district is in operation,
the workers having gone out on strike for
121f per cent advance in wages.
A statement has been prepare by the
treasury department which shows that du-
ring the month Of April there was an in
crease in the circulation e4,94, ,17O, and 4
net increase Of cash in the treasury OF 81
ISL, ,66J.
Assistant Secretary Maynard instructa
the collector of customs at Marquette,
Sfich., as to the rights of Canadian contract
Ors who have secured the building OF the
bridge at the Sault st. Marie. on the Amer
ican sOi.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, tho wife Of
Charles Martin, . young farmer, gave ri
poison to her children and took dose her
self. The woman and elder child are dead
The other child will recover. Mrs. Martin
had lived unhappily with her husband
The towns along the Piscataquis river,
Maine, have been damaged to an incalcu-
liable amount by flood, that river having
risen 25 feet. Every industry and nearly
all hOuseholders are sufferers. People can
only get about their villages and farms in
boats.
Dispatches from Nanaimo, B. c., an
nouncc that the worst fears have been
disaster, as about 10 men were killed In
the mine. OF this number los were white
and 65 Chinese. All were killed by fata
fire damp.
Adispatch from Moncton, N. B., Of the
9Th says that q passenger train on the Inter
Colonial railroad struck an avalanche oi
snow which had dropped on the track from
| high bank. Two engines and four first
class cars ran of the track and were piled
| up in . heap OF ruins. Fireman Pierre
Levasguer and Brakeman Alfred Lavard
were killed.
May 8, the American House at Princeton
was badly damaged by fire. Patrick Cough
| an, q farmer south OF Prin ceton had q larg.
lot Of hogs, barn, granary, wheat ant
| machinery destroyed by fire. The los
/ ($1 ,SOO) is partially covered. At Anoka, OF
| the night Of the 3rd, the fair grounds wer,
| touched by q miniature cyclone and on,
entire row OF sheds was badly demolished
One shed was lifted up, carried one hundret
| feet and deposited in the road aud up sid
| down. The force of the wind was exertet
| in q rotary motion. The damage to tn
grounds and buildings is between 500 ant
500.
Texas and New Mexico experienced earth
quake shocks ON the afternoon Of the Bird
At Ell Paso, Tex, the shocks 80 alarmed tn
people that none but invalids and the help
less r,nlained indoors Albuquerque,
NJ, court was in session and those in tn
court room thought the structure wa
about to fall and q stampede was made TO
tho court and the officials Joined in the rush
The shock appeared to have been geners
throughout the Southwest. At San Marcis
two distinct shocks were felt and the alarm
was general. At Lake Valley, 200 mile
south, two shocks were distinguished.
A cispatah from Avoca says q belief pr
walls there that DR.. Charles Bruil, who n
Gently committed suicide in the county ia
at Dodgeville while undergoing examin,
tion for poisoning his wife, was DIR. job
Bender, Jr., a member of the notorious Bel
der family of murueIors ao dAi from Kal
sss s.sarai years ago to escape pnnishinei
for their crimes. The idea was obtaine
from letter received there lately from Il
faculty of the college which DR.. Bru
graduated from in which it was said
| was known in the institution as John Be-
| der Jr., and from other facts and circun
stances which it is believed connect him u
mistakably with that notorious family.